1698

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	16th century – 17th century – 18th century
Decades:	1660s  1670s  1680s  – 1690s –  1700s  1710s  1720s
Years:	1695 1696 1697 – 1698 – 1699 1700 1701

1698 by topic:

Arts and Science

Architecture - Art - Literature - Music - Science

Lists of leaders

Colonial governors - State leaders

Birth and death categories

Births - Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments - Disestablishments

Works category

Works

1698 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1698 MDCXCVIII
Ab urbe condita	2451
Armenian calendar	1147 ԹՎ ՌՃԽԷ
Assyrian calendar	6448
Bengali calendar	1105
Berber calendar	2648
English Regnal year	10 Will. 3 – 11 Will. 3
Buddhist calendar	2242
Burmese calendar	1060
Byzantine calendar	7206–7207
Chinese calendar	丁丑年 (Fire Ox) 4394 or 4334     — to — 戊寅年 (Earth Tiger) 4395 or 4335
Coptic calendar	1414–1415
Discordian calendar	2864
Ethiopian calendar	1690–1691
Hebrew calendar	5458–5459
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1754–1755
- Shaka Samvat	1620–1621
- Kali Yuga	4799–4800
Holocene calendar	11698
Igbo calendar	698–699
Iranian calendar	1076–1077
Islamic calendar	1109–1110
Japanese calendar	Genroku 11 (元禄１１年)
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 10 days
Korean calendar	4031
Minguo calendar	214 before ROC 民前214年
Thai solar calendar	2240–2241

1698 (MDCXCVIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (dominical letter E) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Saturday (dominical letter B) of the Julian calendar, the 1698th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 698th year of the 2nd millennium, the 98th year of the 17th century, and the 9th year of the 1690s decade. Note that the Julian day for 1698 is 10 calendar days difference, which continued to be used from 1582 until the complete conversion of the Gregorian calendar was entirely done in 1929. The first year of the ascending Dvapara Yuga.

Events

January–June

• January 1 – The Abenaki tribe and the Massachusetts colonists sign a treaty ending the conflict in New England.
• January 4 – The Palace of Whitehall in London is destroyed by fire.
• January 23 – George Louis (who in 1714 will become King George I of Great Britain) becomes Elector of Hanover.

July–December

• July 14 – Darien scheme: The first Scottish settlers leave for an ill-fated colony in Panama.
• July 25 – English engineer Thomas Savery obtains a patent for a steam pump.^[1]
• August 25 – Peter the Great arrives back to Moscow: General Patrick Gordon has already crushed the Streltsy Uprising, with 341 rebels sentenced to be decapitated (tradition holds that tsar Peter decapitated some of them himself).
• September 5 – In an effort to move his people away from Asiatic customs, Tsar Peter I of Russia imposes a tax on beards: all men except priests and peasants are required to pay a tax of 100 rubles a year; commoners are required to pay one kopeck each.
• October 24 – Iberville and Bienville sail from Brest to the Gulf of Mexico to defend the southern borders of New France; they will eventually found three capitals of Louisiana (New France), as the future American cities: Mobile, Biloxi & New Orleans.^[2]
• November – Tani Jinzan, astronomer and calendar scholar, observes a fire destroy Tosa (now Kōchi) in Japan at the same time as a Leonid meteor shower, taking it as evidence to reinforce belief in the "Theory of Areas".
• November 14 – First Eddystone Lighthouse off Plymouth, England, illuminated.^[3]
• November 16 – A congress begins in Sremski Karlovci to discuss a treaty between the Ottoman Empire and the Holy League.

Date unknown

• The Whigs sponsor Captain Kidd of New York as a privateer against French shipping.
• Humphrey Hody is appointed regius professor of Greek at Oxford.
• John Churchill, Earl of Marlborough is reinstated in the English army after a period in disgrace.
• Bucharest becomes the capital of Wallachia (now part of Romania).
• In Africa, Mombasa and Zanzibar are captured by Oman.
• Since the establishment of its presidencies in 1689, the British East India Company has been under constant pressure from traders who are not members of the company and are not licensed by the Crown to trade. Under a parliamentary ruling in favour of free trade, these private newcomers are able to set up a new company, called the New Company or English Company.

Births

• January 3 – Metastasio, born Pietro Antonio Domenico Trapassi, Italian poet and opera librettist (d. 1782)
• February – Colin Maclaurin, Scottish mathematician (d. 1746)
• February 16 – Pierre Bouguer, French mathematician, geophysicist, geodesist, and astronomer (d. 1758)
• March 26 – Václav Prokop Diviš, Czech priest, scientist and inventor (d. 1765)
• May 8 – Henry Baker, English naturalist (d. 1774)
• July 17 – Pierre Louis Moreau de Maupertuis, French mathematician (d. 1759)
• July 19 – Johann Jakob Bodmer, Swiss author (d. 1783)
• September 6 – Jean Thurel, French soldier (d. 1807)
• September 26 – William Cavendish, 3rd Duke of Devonshire (d. 1755)
• November 4 – Caleb Fleming, English dissenting minister and polemicist (d. 1779)
• December 24 – William Warburton, English critic and Bishop of Gloucester (d. 1779)
• date unknown – Bernard Forest de Bélidor, French engineer (d. 1761)

Deaths

• January 10 – Louis-Sébastien Le Nain de Tillemont, French historian (b. 1637)
• March 14 – Claes Rålamb, Swedish statesman (b. 1622)
• April 29 – Charles Cornwallis, 3rd Baron Cornwallis, First Lord of the British Admiralty (b. 1655)
• May 15 – Marie Champmeslé, French actress (b. 1642)
• July 18 – Johann Heinrich Heidegger, Swiss theologian (b. 1633)
• November 4 – Rasmus Bartholin, Danish physician and scientist (b. 1625)
• November 28 – Louis de Buade de Frontenac, Governor of New France (b. 1622)
• December? – Franciscus Mercurius van Helmont, Flemish alchemist (b. 1614)
• date unknown – Nicholas Barbon, English economist (b. c. 1640)

References

1. Carlyle, E. I. (2004). "Savery, Thomas (1650?–1715)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/24733. Retrieved 2011-11-05. (subscription or UK public library membership required)
2. O’Neill, C. E. (1974). "Le Moyne de Bienville, Jean-Baptiste". In Halpenny, Francess G. Dictionary of Canadian Biography. III (1741–1770) (online ed.). University of Toronto Press.
3. Majdalany, Fred (1959). The Red Rocks of Eddystone. London: Longmans. p. 49.